Smyrna times., 1887-01-05
m, uz For The Smyrna Tines
The Fall" and " Old Age.W
PSYCHE PHYSICALLY COMPARED.

PSYCHIC PHYSICALLY COMpAppr
ms has been one of the longest
most uniform and most beautiful faI
: seasons ever known for those Iivino ir
Uhe country. In this State no roo
cold weather has yet (20th) been ex.
penenced, but just those few touches
OF white frost that ripen the late,
fruits, and cause the leaves to foda ond
, fall gradually and gracefully. Never
with our recollection Of nearly fftv
years. have the forests appeared more
beautiful. With some the season Of
the fading leaves seems a time of mel
ancholly; not altogethera disagreeablo
meIoncholly either, but a sort of sweat-
ened sadness, as if the season was nut
IN that position in the year lust to
remind us that we all do fade and " fall >,
as the tedUes. And many thero ara
VINO as the season comes feel it is TINS
with them. And "mqay" of us who
little dream oft, perhaps, are looking
on the fall Of the gear" for the last
tlme' and fading as the leaves fade. and
with as little consciousness, "faHing as
the teare8 fall ;" some into consumnfion
and some into the various forms of age
OF wasting and of death!
Soon we shall ALL fade as the leaf
and some fall of the year will he our
last, and the cold wind of death will
carry us away, and the snow willcov
our graves when winter comes. and tho
ram will beat upon them. and mix the
Proudest of us like dead and witbernd
leaves III the dust of our mother earth
ct, IN a sufficiently wide view Of
thlngs' the fading of the leaf when if
comes IN due time, is not a Mechanically
season in the appearance of the trees
and 1t ought not to be "ere, " in the
lie OF man. This is the time of the
greatest richness and beauty of nature
III the whole year. True, the scar and
yellow leaf, viewed too closely or
singly and alone, may not be so beauti-
ful as the foliage of the evergreens
but viewed in the aggregate and in a
sufficiently comprehensive scale. what
sight on earth equals the American
forest at this very season? The manle
and the oak, and the elm and the ash
now have a richness OF tint, and each n
distinct and several style of beauty
never before developed.
And all this is not less true in tho
world of human beings than of trees
In man the season of the fading leaf
is that when the 'truits of character
ripen," when distinctive features of
each mind natures and show them
selves out with the greater clearness.
and when they seem also to know how
to exhibit themselves out in the good
In all their distinctive features" and
yet WithoW Earring or discord." to
show all their mellOwness and ripeness.
The bdtd heat and the snow-wbite
locks Of weli-preserred "old man, !
and the prim cap, the quiet smile of {
peaceful resignation, the Quaker-like {
and neatness of some old ,
lady on whom the infirmities of wears !
press silently and slowly, bring with !
them sometimes the most beautiful q
of human nature on earth. I
The frost of age may crisp the brow O
md the snow of years may rest upon
he locks, but the rich clusters of a
christian graces are ripening daily, and |,
ne ripeness becomes only increasingly l
conspicuous by the outer worlds decay. f
The leaves seem to fade only in order b
o exhibit the new beauties of the fruit II
lh's Is the reward 3" of an old age of 4
luiet excellence and usefulness. When $,
nen have learned to make the world [
within harmonic with the world with o.
ut, and so to carry all their pecu- b
Iaritles as to only exhibit their bright II
nd warm side to the light, then it is NJ
hat the autumn of mans davs tr
ecomes Indian summer, rich alike in n,
IS foliage and its fruits, and ripe in SC
lessings to all around him. Then. tl
nd then only it is really true that ,oe h,
Ide as the leaf, exhibiting new beauties w
every touch and turn, and more SC
lories like the setting sun! Ill
Of course, it is only in due season.
lerefore, that the fading leaf is beauti- tn
Il. The premature failure of tree, nc
rled up and withered in its leaves at to
Midsummer, worm-eaten and dying, an
hen it should be bearing fruit, is any ca
ling but becoming. The are is soon sa
Dplied to the root of such trees. st,
Thus, psycho-physicalIy viewed, of
ans infrmities and eccentricities, bu
ithOut age to render them natural, are wi
arks of n decay" that is tUithout en-.
nor And so, on the other hand, the fire
,treme efforts often made to assume
Q manners and habits and carriage I
youth in age, of May IN the December inn
tJe, excite only disgust instead of wb
ncealing weakness. We need not An
arrel with a little hair-dye, or few cor
tifcial teeth, or a thousand other cor
Is of the toilet that assist to make one ton
rry his age becOmingly, but no wise tho
IN will be ashamed of his age, though too
may not take pleasure in exposing ella,
i'''iiiiii'ies' But the man VINO apes ted
manners and even the weakness of am
nth that he may pass unsupported of in I
ose of age, only "shows that lack of frs
Prospect" which must prevent all hay
lers from respecting him.
AH seasons are beautiful in nature, {.
d all seasons are beautiful in human hes
2. That of the "opening flower" unit
q that of the "ripening fruit" The for
son of the blooming rosebud" and Sr9t 9Iit